How come...

[Rubyrose]

All peoples memories work differently.... for instance... I am very good with faces... never forget a face... even remember people from my play school when I see them.. and good with scripts and song lyrics... always loved learning my lines for Drama as it was so easy and I can recite whole scripts of films and stuff.... but I am rubbish with dates... always forget birthdays.. every year I forget my friends.. and it was this month and I forgot.. she always reminds me the day before... but... I couldn't even tell you which date it was now! And it was last week sometime!! That's bad.. and I am terrible with timing... always judging time wrong!

Why are some people good with some things and not others?

[bigmamma]

Hi rubyrose :-) x ...erm ..........erm.........dash it , what was I going to say ...........erm........

[Rubyrose]

Hi Bigmamma... not really helping... Lol.. ;o)

[cazzz1975]

I am terrible at remembering day to day stuff, I missed my sons optician appointment on wednesday, just went clean out of my head, yet I am great with statistics and I have a photographic memory (allegedly)

[bigmamma]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_retention

[annie0000]

I can remember things from long ago quite clearly, but like you, I tend to remember in pictures - I have mild dislexia and this causes me problems with really simple things like times tables, the alphabet and people's names! Despite doing well in most things at school - including Maths, I really struggle if someone asks me what 6 X 7 is and it takes me ages to look things up in the telephone book. I will usually remember whether someones name begins with a curly or straight letter, but that is about it! I think that we all take things in differently - if I need to remember something for an exam or whatever, I need to write it down so that I can visualise it on the paper.

[annie0000]

Also, I am great with lists - and I can amaze people in work by managing to get the tea/coffee round in correctly for about 20 people without writing it down. I put this down to my early training of being the youngest of 7 children and being sent to the ice cream van for everybody's order. I would have got a severe beating up if i got it wrong! isn't it amazing how the threat of violence improves the memory. LOL

[cazzz1975]

is there nothing the wikipedia doesnt know!!

[bigmamma]

in my working days I could remember all the patients details etc and all the mathematical calculations for medications and feeding , and yet these days I can go into the supermarket and forget what I came in for , standing there in an aisle looking as though I v'e had a lobotomy .

[lady_p_gold]

I don't know ... are you left handed by any chance? I am exactly the same as you, remember people from years and years ago, if I see someone on TV I can remember their face from a role twenty years ago, and yet I never know what day it is, always forget birthdays and things. I can also remember entire song lyrics from songs I haven't heard for decades. Not sure what side of our brains are controlling us, but at least I am usually happy !!!!!

[Rubyrose]

Lady P - Thats exactly like me! I will see people on TV and be able to tell you what film I saw them in when I was 4yrs old and not be able to tell you the date! Lol

I am not left handed so that theory doesn't check out! I am a very happy person though... :o)

[Doc Spock]

Whatever we learn or experience up to the age of about 25 is stored in all our brain cells. We have a lot of brain cells at that age. Brain cells begin to die at an ever increasing rate, but stuff we have known for years is stored in all the remaining cells so we can recall childhood memories.
Here.'s the problem. I'm 62, I read something to-day,it.s absorbed by brain cells but those cells die overnight without passing the information on to it's brain cell buddies. In short the older you get the poorer your short term memory, but you still recall with ease your formative years.
Worth 3 stars I think.